"It's still OK to enjoy programming": dev pushes back on AI-era coding doom
facontidavide · x · 2026-10-20
chriskiehl's essay "It's still OK to enjoy programming" pushes back against the doom pervading Hacker News.
- Yes, the economics of hand-written code at work have changed — but work is not life, and the loudest voices online are the saddest and most infectious.
- The author still codes on weekends, hand-writing a buggy Breakout clone and studying "useless" topics like pushing Java type safety with ideas from Agda and recursion schemes, purely because solving hard things is rewarding. Whether Claude could one-shot it is beside the point.
A gentle counter-narrative to AI-era coding anxiety, about joy and growth independent of productivity.
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